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The Brian Lehrer Show

The 2024 Election and Your Relationships

The Brian Lehrer Show

WNYC

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4.61.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Listeners call in to talk about how the 2024 election has affected their relationships and what it's taught them about their friends, neighbors, colleagues and acquaintances.

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0:00.0

Listener supported WNYC Studios.

0:11.2

Brian Lairer on WNYC, and to end the show today, we're going to open up the phones on how the 2024 election,

0:26.7

and to some extent our politics in general over the last decade,

0:30.6

let's say the whole Trump era, has affected your relationships.

0:34.8

212-433 WNYC, 22433-9-6-9-2. But we definitely want to know the 2024 post-election

0:45.3

version of this conversation that we've definitely been having since around 2015 now. How is the

0:52.7

political divide in the Trump era affecting your family relationships,

0:57.3

your friend relationships, your neighbor relationships, your relationships at work,

1:02.8

now that this election has taken place? Anything yet to report? 212-433. WNYN.Y. 212.433-9692. Here's just a quick scan of some recent headlines

1:17.9

from the New Yorker. The election is dividing husbands and wives across America.

1:22.7

From the New York Times, united by love, divided by politics. And from Pink News, J.D. Vance admits he's lost friends over

1:31.4

Donald Trump support. So how is the 2024 election affecting any of your relationships? Have you

1:39.9

lost a relationship or a friend over your support or their support of one candidate or the

1:48.0

other, 212, 433, WNYC, 433, 9692. What may be a new wrinkle for us in this conversation,

1:58.0

it does seem like we have it every year going into Thanksgiving. And that's

2:01.7

definitely one of the things that you can talk about is, have you changed any Thanksgiving plans?

2:06.8

I know one person who let us know that they already have. They just can't bear to be with their,

2:14.7

in their case, Trump voting relatives at Thanksgiving this year.

2:20.6

So we definitely can hear about that.

2:23.1

But a new wrinkle, as we've been talking about the electoral map and how many people

2:30.7

even in New York City who didn't vote for Trump before did this year is the

2:37.6

vibe in your building if you live in an apartment building or the vibe on your block if you live in a

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